Gift Mwonzora
Biographic Data
| ID | 211257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gift Mwonzora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gift |
| FAMILY NAME | Mwonzora |
| SIGNATURE | MWONZORA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5690-7977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Securing a Roof or Securing Ecosystems
Conditional solutionism
International organizations play an important role in framing the debate about how new technologies transform global labour markets. Merging insights from the recent scholarship on technology and society with academic debates on global social policy, we look at policy reports from international organizations to see how they discuss the debate for middle-income countries. We focus on these countries because they are very much affected by technolog…
Who is patriotic, who is not’? Enactment of patriotism law in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in understanding whether patriotism or patriotic history can be imposed upon citizens. This raging debate has been evident in both developed and developing countries invoking sentiments around the role of patriotism, identity and nationalism in nation-building. Drawing on the Zimbabwean case study, this article examines the current efforts by the ZANU-PF led regime to legislate patriotism through an Act of Parli…
Zimbabwe opposition’s quest for electoral reforms in the post-GNU era
The demand and clamour for electoral reforms in Africa are among one of the most pressing issues of today. Existing research has documented how citizens of several African countries have flooded the streets in anti-regime protests demanding electoral reforms from their respective governments. Less well researched, however, is how, (to what extent), and (with what) effect do opposition parties utilise collective action approaches in pushing for el…
The Hand that Gives and the Hand that Takes
The literature on repression and path dependence provides a solid theoretical tradition for understanding how regimes contain and repress protests and strikes. Less well-understood is how and why regimes react in the manner they do in containing industrial job action from critical and essential service sectors such as public doctors. Answering these questions is pertinent not only for advancing scholarly insights on repression literature but also…
Too many parties and still counting
Since the onset of multi-party democracy, which saw elections becoming the ‘only game in town’, political parties are viewed as lodestars of democracy. However, there are times when the political scene becomes ‘crowded’ with ‘too many parties’. This trend has been pervasive in some African countries, including Zimbabwe. How do we account for this phenomenon, and what does this say about party system institutionalisation, affective polarisation – …
Local Governance and Wetlands Management
Truce and reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Throughout history, truce-making has been an important mechanism to temporarily halt fighting between antagonistic forces. In some instances, national truces are used to usher in longer-term national reconciliation. In this regard, there is an important analytical distinction between a truce and a reconciliation. What is sometimes articulated publicly as a formal reconciliation is often merely a truce, at least from the perspective of the hegemon…
Opposition failures in forming pre-electoral coalitions in Zimbabwe
There is an enduring discussion in the literature on why African opposition parties often fail to unite to fight the incumbent from a position of strength. Much of the extant studies have examined success stories of pre-electoral coalition-building in established democracies. There is less focus on why African opposition parties fail to form coalitions. In seeking to contribute to this debate, the article examines why Zimbabwean opposition partie…
Demolitions of Informal Business Structures in Harare, Zimbabwe Under the Guise of Covid-19 City Clean Up
Recent research on the informal sector has devoted considerable attention in examining how informal traders have been affected by the coronavirus in different temporal and spatial settings. However, less well understood is the extent to which central and local governments can cunningly use the veil of COVID-19 pandemic to regulate and re-shape the informal sector. Seeking to remedy this shortcoming in the prevailing accounts and utilising a quali…
Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa is central to the political terrain of contemporary Zimbabwe. Post the soft coup of November 2017 and the death of Morgan Tsvangirai in early 2018, Chamisa became president of the Movement for Democratic Change party and contested the July 2018 presidential election. The tempo of changes in the Movement for Democratic Change presidency is not related directly to the shift from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. However, broader politics formed a…
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe
Considerable research has, in recent years, focused on the utility of social media platforms in political campaigns in both developed and developing countries, but there has not been significant analysis of social media use in voter registration campaigns. In seeking to address this lacuna in the literature, this article examines the use and efficacy of social media networking sites (SNS), namely Facebook and Twitter, in mobilising, informing and…
Learning and performing political violence
This article examines political violence enacted by youth during the presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe in 2008. After the presidential election in March 2008, no clear winner emerged, leading to a run-off election in June 2008 between Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In the face of a possible defeat in the run-off, ZANU-PF unleashe…
The Menu of Electoral Manipulation in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in investigating why and how ruling parties manipulate elections in Africa and elsewhere. Despite the importance of such a subject, much remains unknown about the role of incumbents in strategically manipulating electoral processes and outcomes in by-elections in particular. Debate rages on as to whether ruling parties rely exclusively on coercive methods or, in addition, make use of non-repressive methods. In s…
Demolitions of Informal Business Structures in Harare, Zimbabwe Under the Guise of Covid-19 City Clean Up
Recent research on the informal sector has devoted considerable attention in examining how informal traders have been affected by the coronavirus in different temporal and spatial settings. However, less well understood is the extent to which central and local governments can cunningly use the veil of COVID-19 pandemic to regulate and re-shape the informal sector. Seeking to remedy this shortcoming in the prevailing accounts and utilising a quali…
Learning and performing political violence
This article examines political violence enacted by youth during the presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe in 2008. After the presidential election in March 2008, no clear winner emerged, leading to a run-off election in June 2008 between Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In the face of a possible defeat in the run-off, ZANU-PF unleashe…
The Menu of Electoral Manipulation in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in investigating why and how ruling parties manipulate elections in Africa and elsewhere. Despite the importance of such a subject, much remains unknown about the role of incumbents in strategically manipulating electoral processes and outcomes in by-elections in particular. Debate rages on as to whether ruling parties rely exclusively on coercive methods or, in addition, make use of non-repressive methods. In s…
Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa is central to the political terrain of contemporary Zimbabwe. Post the soft coup of November 2017 and the death of Morgan Tsvangirai in early 2018, Chamisa became president of the Movement for Democratic Change party and contested the July 2018 presidential election. The tempo of changes in the Movement for Democratic Change presidency is not related directly to the shift from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. However, broader politics formed a…
Opposition failures in forming pre-electoral coalitions in Zimbabwe
There is an enduring discussion in the literature on why African opposition parties often fail to unite to fight the incumbent from a position of strength. Much of the extant studies have examined success stories of pre-electoral coalition-building in established democracies. There is less focus on why African opposition parties fail to form coalitions. In seeking to contribute to this debate, the article examines why Zimbabwean opposition partie…
Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe
Considerable research has, in recent years, focused on the utility of social media platforms in political campaigns in both developed and developing countries, but there has not been significant analysis of social media use in voter registration campaigns. In seeking to address this lacuna in the literature, this article examines the use and efficacy of social media networking sites (SNS), namely Facebook and Twitter, in mobilising, informing and…
Truce and reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Throughout history, truce-making has been an important mechanism to temporarily halt fighting between antagonistic forces. In some instances, national truces are used to usher in longer-term national reconciliation. In this regard, there is an important analytical distinction between a truce and a reconciliation. What is sometimes articulated publicly as a formal reconciliation is often merely a truce, at least from the perspective of the hegemon…
Who is patriotic, who is not’? Enactment of patriotism law in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in understanding whether patriotism or patriotic history can be imposed upon citizens. This raging debate has been evident in both developed and developing countries invoking sentiments around the role of patriotism, identity and nationalism in nation-building. Drawing on the Zimbabwean case study, this article examines the current efforts by the ZANU-PF led regime to legislate patriotism through an Act of Parli…
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
The Menu of Electoral Manipulation in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in investigating why and how ruling parties manipulate elections in Africa and elsewhere. Despite the importance of such a subject, much remains unknown about the role of incumbents in strategically manipulating electoral processes and outcomes in by-elections in particular. Debate rages on as to whether ruling parties rely exclusively on coercive methods or, in addition, make use of non-repressive methods. In s…
From the Booth to the Dock
The issue of presidential election petitions seems to be repeating itself with regularity in much of Africa, thus warranting the need for thorough analysis. Utilising the 2018 presidential election petition in Zimbabwe, the article examines whether electoral integrity and legitimacy can be derived from court-based action. Data for this article was gleaned from case law analysis, review of expert analysis from constitutional lawyers and election e…
Social media and citizen mobilisation in the biometric voter registration (BVR) process in Zimbabwe
Considerable research has, in recent years, focused on the utility of social media platforms in political campaigns in both developed and developing countries, but there has not been significant analysis of social media use in voter registration campaigns. In seeking to address this lacuna in the literature, this article examines the use and efficacy of social media networking sites (SNS), namely Facebook and Twitter, in mobilising, informing and…
Learning and performing political violence
This article examines political violence enacted by youth during the presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe in 2008. After the presidential election in March 2008, no clear winner emerged, leading to a run-off election in June 2008 between Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). In the face of a possible defeat in the run-off, ZANU-PF unleashe…
Movement for Democratic Change and the Rise of Nelson Chamisa
Nelson Chamisa is central to the political terrain of contemporary Zimbabwe. Post the soft coup of November 2017 and the death of Morgan Tsvangirai in early 2018, Chamisa became president of the Movement for Democratic Change party and contested the July 2018 presidential election. The tempo of changes in the Movement for Democratic Change presidency is not related directly to the shift from Mugabe to Mnangagwa. However, broader politics formed a…
Local Governance and Wetlands Management
Truce and reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Throughout history, truce-making has been an important mechanism to temporarily halt fighting between antagonistic forces. In some instances, national truces are used to usher in longer-term national reconciliation. In this regard, there is an important analytical distinction between a truce and a reconciliation. What is sometimes articulated publicly as a formal reconciliation is often merely a truce, at least from the perspective of the hegemon…
Opposition failures in forming pre-electoral coalitions in Zimbabwe
There is an enduring discussion in the literature on why African opposition parties often fail to unite to fight the incumbent from a position of strength. Much of the extant studies have examined success stories of pre-electoral coalition-building in established democracies. There is less focus on why African opposition parties fail to form coalitions. In seeking to contribute to this debate, the article examines why Zimbabwean opposition partie…
Demolitions of Informal Business Structures in Harare, Zimbabwe Under the Guise of Covid-19 City Clean Up
Recent research on the informal sector has devoted considerable attention in examining how informal traders have been affected by the coronavirus in different temporal and spatial settings. However, less well understood is the extent to which central and local governments can cunningly use the veil of COVID-19 pandemic to regulate and re-shape the informal sector. Seeking to remedy this shortcoming in the prevailing accounts and utilising a quali…
Too many parties and still counting
Since the onset of multi-party democracy, which saw elections becoming the ‘only game in town’, political parties are viewed as lodestars of democracy. However, there are times when the political scene becomes ‘crowded’ with ‘too many parties’. This trend has been pervasive in some African countries, including Zimbabwe. How do we account for this phenomenon, and what does this say about party system institutionalisation, affective polarisation – …
Zimbabwe opposition’s quest for electoral reforms in the post-GNU era
The demand and clamour for electoral reforms in Africa are among one of the most pressing issues of today. Existing research has documented how citizens of several African countries have flooded the streets in anti-regime protests demanding electoral reforms from their respective governments. Less well researched, however, is how, (to what extent), and (with what) effect do opposition parties utilise collective action approaches in pushing for el…
The Hand that Gives and the Hand that Takes
The literature on repression and path dependence provides a solid theoretical tradition for understanding how regimes contain and repress protests and strikes. Less well-understood is how and why regimes react in the manner they do in containing industrial job action from critical and essential service sectors such as public doctors. Answering these questions is pertinent not only for advancing scholarly insights on repression literature but also…
Securing a Roof or Securing Ecosystems
Conditional solutionism
International organizations play an important role in framing the debate about how new technologies transform global labour markets. Merging insights from the recent scholarship on technology and society with academic debates on global social policy, we look at policy reports from international organizations to see how they discuss the debate for middle-income countries. We focus on these countries because they are very much affected by technolog…
Who is patriotic, who is not’? Enactment of patriotism law in Zimbabwe
Scholars have long been interested in understanding whether patriotism or patriotic history can be imposed upon citizens. This raging debate has been evident in both developed and developing countries invoking sentiments around the role of patriotism, identity and nationalism in nation-building. Drawing on the Zimbabwean case study, this article examines the current efforts by the ZANU-PF led regime to legislate patriotism through an Act of Parli…
Political science (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)